Mladen Lorkovic

Mladen Lorkovic (1 March 1909-April 1945) was Minister of the Interior of the Independent State of Croatia from 11 October 1943 to 30 August 1944, succeeding Andrija Artukovic and preceding Mate Frkovic.

Biography
Mladen Lorkovic was born on 1 March 1909 in Zagreb, Croatia and Slavonia, Austria-Hungary to a family of Catholic Croats. He was a dissident, and he was placed under police surveillance by King Alexander I of Yugoslavia's dictatorship over the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. Lorkovic went into exile in Nazi Germany, and when the Independent State of Croatia was formed during World War II, he was made Minister of the Interior. In 1944, Lorkovic and Ante Vokic made a plot to overthrow the government, so they were both arrested and executed in April 1945.